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Thanks for your interest in using The DOCK Café for your upcoming meeting or event. You couldn’t pick a better place, even if we do say so ourselves. As our popularity has increased we’ve put together a few guidelines for groups who would like to use the space.

Due to legal requirements, the high demand, our ethos and practicalities we have to say ‘no’ to the following:

Bookings with less than 5 days notice

Live music or acoustic nights

Barbecues

Alcohol

Groups over 60 (people not age!)

Persons under the age of 21 acting as key holder (after opening hours)

We also ask that:

Furniture will not be moved – The Dock is made up exclusively of donated furniture so please be gentle with it all. And if something breaks, let us know – we’ll not shout!

You’ll consider making an Honesty Box donation, and pop it in the envelope provided on the day (we can provide an Honesty Box Invoice if you require a paper trail)

Please help our volunteers by leaving the cafe as you found it (or even cleaner – this makes us very happy)

If booking outside of opening hours (Monday – Saturday 11am-5pm) you need to submit a brief outline of how the event will help us with our ethos of building life in the Titanic Quarter and building community within the dock café. And since cafe operation is trickier than it looks…

You’ll need to delegate a responsible person who will come in at a pre-arranged time to get the low-down on the position of the light switches, the location of the loo roll, the operating instructions for Doris the Dishwasher and a thousand-and-one other secrets of The Dock. It’s not rocket science – but you’ll need to get your head around it all before your event.

If you are happy with all of the above, let’s proceed!

I would like to hold an event or meeting in The DOCK Cafe

I am happy with the above terms

Do you want to book during opening hours of Monday – Saturday 11am – 5pm?

Are there more than 8 people in your group?

Please note: We can supply tea and coffee. All other food and drinks are on a bring-your-own basis - if you require sandwich platters etc, please make your own arrangements (and separate payment) with the Green Deli or other supplier. We also ask that you leave the space as you found it. We can supply cleaning materials if you can supply the elbow grease.

You can make an Honesty Box donation, either as a group or as individuals, on the day. If you require a document for accounting purposes, we can send you an Honesty Box Invoice (where the amount is up to you!)

ABOUT THE CATERING

Do you require:

Yes / No

Quantity

soup

Yes

scones

Yes

tea/coffee

Yes

traybakes

Yes

For sandwich platters please contact the Green Deli on 02890737177

Please note: For groups outside of opening hours, the hard-working Dock volunteers are not available to stay on for extra hours to look after you. Therefore, being the nice trusting people that we are, we can be persuaded to allow people who are hiring the space to look after themselves - provided that they have identified a responsible keyholder, called in to the cafe to receive a brief keyholder training session, and agreed to the little checklist in the following form.

Please note due to high demand we cannot facilitate all requests and will endeavour to reply within one week.

ABOUT YOU

Your name (required):

Your address (required):

Your telephone number (required):

Your email address (required):

Your church, group or organisation:

ABOUT THE BOOKING

Number of people in the group:

Proposed date and time:

For how long do you require the space?

Do you require someone to give a short talk on The Dock?Yes

You can make an Honesty Box donation any time during or after your event. If you require a paper trail we can send you a blank Honesty Box Invoice (where the amount is up to you!)

ABOUT THE CATERING

ADDITIONAL TERMS

As would are trusting you with a keys to our beloved cafe, we just need to make sure that you have agreed to the following.

Tick to indicate agreement:

Furniture will not be moved - The Dock is made up exclusively of donated furniture so please be gentle with it all. And if something breaks, let us know - we’ll not shout!

You'll consider making an Honesty Box donation, and pop it in the envelope provided on the day.

Your event will not be too noisy and will be finished by midnight (remember we’re not in the middle of nowhere - we don’t want to be a nuisance to our lovely neighbours living just upstairs)

You’ll help our volunteers by leaving the cafe as you found it (or even cleaner – this makes us very happy!)

You will return the key to Dock Cafe the next working day

You’ll delegate a responsible person who will come in at a pre-arranged time to get the low-down on the position of the light switches, the location of the loo roll, the operating instructions for Doris the Dishwasher and a thousand-and-one other secrets of The Dock. It’s not rocket science - but you’ll need to get your head around it all before your event

Name of responsible person

His/her her telephone number

His/her email address

Please submit a brief outline of how the event will help us with our ethos of building life in the Titanic Quarter and building community within The DOCK Café

Sorry, you cannot hold this event in The DOCK. Thank you for your interest.

The DOCK Cafe

Mondays to Saturdays, 11am to 5pm

Closed until further notice in the interests of public health and our volunteers.